When her father's parents, whom she has never met, invite her to Mexico, Clara Luna, stunned by the way they live, finds her soul embracing their culture, and embarks on a quest to find the spirit waterfall, with the help of a handsome goat herder. Reprint.
Here is a beautiful and unique picture book in turn-around format about the concept of day and night. Open the book, and the sun rises to reveal blue skies, crowded barnyards, and bustling streets.
Relates the tale of a ball thrown for all the inhabitants of the forest where animals dance the night away.
A Great and Terrible Beauty LIBBA BRAY 978-0-385-73231-4 Sixteen - year - old Gemma Doyle is sent to the Spence Academy in London after tragedy strikes her family in India . Lonely , guilt - ridden , and prone to visions of the future ...
Funny, sometimes heart-wrenching, and always uplifting, this novel from New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins illuminates how life’s greatest joys are often hiding in plain sight.
This enchanting novel from an award-winning author targets an underserved but growing population: the children of illegal immigrants. O[An] unforgettable narrative of a girl's daily struggle to find a home.O--"Booklist, " starred review.
Learn about the lunar cycle and learn the real shape of the moon with this cutely illustrated storybook.
A biography of the astronaut, Michael Collins, who circled the moon in the Apollo 12 space capsule while his colleagues Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the lunar module and walked on the moon.
The barrette had slipped to the back of my head and it pressed into me, and I felt I could not move to adjust it. It ended up making a small wound that kept me tender for a long time. Why tell more? The silent ride home?
A one-armed computer technician, a radical blonde bombshell, an aging academic, and a sentient all-knowing computer lead the lunar population in a revolution against Earth's colonial rule
This fascinating book will stay with children every time they gaze up at the night sky.